waste_monk

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by waste_monk 1y ago
I just want the damn fridge to keep food cold, I never want it to do anything else . It's bad enough I have to see ads outside the house and on tv/internet, I don't need to see them on my fucking appliances. We are living in
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by waste_monk 1y ago
I understand there is an "Exclude Top Choices" algorithm which helps combat this sort of thing.
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by waste_monk 1y ago
Also worth noting that FTPS (FTP over TLS) exists and obviates the fuss around SSH TOFU and key management etc. Especially given we're in the era of free certificates via Let's Encrypt, this is a great option. The main downside is
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by waste_monk 1y ago
I'm not a firmware dev but the one's I've seen working usually have all sorts of fancy test kits, debug instrumentation, Software (chip scope?), etc. to debug with, not just relying on print debugging. Not to say it isn'
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by waste_monk 1y ago
♫ It's the most blunderful time of the year There'll be much admin moaning And servers not glowing and the NOC crew in tears It's the most blunderful time of the year ♫
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by waste_monk 1y ago
That'd make for a decent heist comedy - a bunch of former professional athletes get hired to break in to a low-oxygen data center, but the plan goes wrong and they have to use their sports skills in improbable ways to pull it off.
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by waste_monk 1y ago
This was part of what complicated the response to the Kursk disaster - they had a rescue buoy but it was welded in place so it couldn't deploy.
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by waste_monk 1y ago
>You can't yell at an AI You certainly can. Not productively, but you can.
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by waste_monk 1y ago
>Can halon systems not put out lithium fires? As the other commenter said, Halon hasn't been a thing for a fair while, but inert gas fire suppression systems in general are still popular. I would expect it wouldn't be sufficien
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by waste_monk 1y ago
I see plenty of "glove box"-type lab equipment which has an airtight enclosure (often rated to some degree of vacuum), and gloves which allow handling of things inside. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to DIY such an enclosure,
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by waste_monk 1y ago
>My lay understanding of export is that the information would somehow have to leave the country; It's not just physical items like munitions, but also things like transfers of information (blueprints, technical data, documentation,
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by waste_monk 1y ago
> Hypothetically it would be legal to display that in public in the US Would it? I'm certainly not a lawyer or ITAR expert, but I would think that if you walked through a public space where you couldn't positively confirm that
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by waste_monk 1y ago
Indeed, this already exists with record types such as TLSA, SMIMEA, and CERT. However I don't believe I've ever seen it used "in the wild".
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by waste_monk 1y ago
>This is meant to be an egg-sized quantity of butter, but what was a normal sized egg in 1905? This site [1] has some interesting info: [1886] "The average weight of twenty eggs laid by fowls of different breeds is two and one-eight
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by waste_monk 1y ago
Presumably they mean something treating it more like renting a car. E.g. if a game console manufacturer wants to retain owner-level control of their console, they can rent it to you for $X per month, which would include a Y% sales/VAT
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by waste_monk 1y ago
>It originated in China, but in recent months and years, it has gained traction as a talking point in tech and startups. I thought I saw something about 996 being made illegal in china a while back, and at a quick search it appears that
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by waste_monk 1y ago
Well, it's not like it's in short supply...
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by waste_monk 1y ago
It's simple, efficient, and saves space in memory. While not as big a deal these days where most systems have plentiful RAM, it's still useful on things like embedded devices. Why waste a whole byte on a bool that has one bit of d
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by waste_monk 1y ago
My university offered (not sure if it still exists) a software engineer degree that was part of the school of engineering, had a mix of courses from the school of engineering and school of math and IT, and at the end of it you would be elig
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by waste_monk 1y ago
It's an open access book, you should have a "open full book pdf" button (a couple down from the blue "export citation" button). I haven't the time to read it myself at the moment, but the gist appears to be abo
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by waste_monk 1y ago
I thought the issue is more the batteries and weight distribution. That is, EVs usually have the batteries along the length of the chassis to spread the load out, which is not practical to retrofit onto an ICE car. And if you fill the engin
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by waste_monk 1y ago
>but entering the Konami Code on the steering wheel to unlock the ignition is quite plausible. The left, right, left, right part I can see, but surely up, up, down, down, would be difficult on most steering wheels :)
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by waste_monk 1y ago
As I understand there's still challenge/response stuff going on when you use a physical key or similar means to unlock the car or start the ignition (as that is how the alarm system and immobiliser distinguish a real key from some
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by waste_monk 1y ago
>We can go outside and see a sun again At least until they figure out how to put ads on it.
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by waste_monk 1y ago
>A Raspberry Pi outperforms a Cray-1 supercomputer, for instance. In terms of compute power this is true. However in terms of design and aesthetics I still find the Cray much more charming than the Pi (even if you start adding fancy cas
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by waste_monk 1y ago
> If they're going to do this "suspicious account" locking, they must make MFA mandatory beforehand. This should probably be the case - I am not a big fan of passkeys [1] but hopefully this will help make non-SMS, phishing
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by waste_monk 1y ago
It is true that google's (lack of) customer support is awful. >it’s well-documented that sometimes, even if you don’t have 2FA turned on and you know your password, they simply won’t let you log in without some sort of additional ve
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by waste_monk 1y ago
How does medical care factor in to your plans? Do those places have equivalent access to care if you stay in or around the main cities? Even something like living in the countryside domestically would worry me (that is, longer times between
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by waste_monk 1y ago
Are they intended to be? Assuming the burners are different sizes - I would not expect the same setting to equal the same wattage on different size burners, as intuition would dictate that a large burner would be more powerful for tasks lik
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by waste_monk 1y ago
I have heard that the problem with ex-emergency services vehicles is they tend to have low distance on the odometer but drastically higher engine hours, particularly idle hours. That is, they may sit with the engine idling for hours at a ti

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